Maybe she was pregnant. Maybe she was a riftugee with no one else to take of her. Maybe Jack had somehow caused her first husband's death. I can see a lot of reasons for Jack to go there.
I can also totally see him lying about the immortality thing, if he was presumably also lying about his job.
But I definitely think the reason he wasn't more aggressive with the Gwen thing is in part his crap track record with his relationships. And I suspect he feels more tortured about the ones with women because of sexism (both that he internalized on earth and just impacting those women in general in a way Jack didn't know how to deal with) and because of the way they got extra complicated due to stuff like pregnancies.
I think Jack can convince himself not to feel guilty CONSTANTLY if he's fucking someone he can force himself to see only as a fellow soldier. And I think he was able to tell himself Gwen was not a fellow soldier. And I think he tried to tell himself that about Ianto, but then Lisa happened _and_ Ianto was good in the field and then that happened.
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I can also totally see him lying about the immortality thing, if he was presumably also lying about his job.
But I definitely think the reason he wasn't more aggressive with the Gwen thing is in part his crap track record with his relationships. And I suspect he feels more tortured about the ones with women because of sexism (both that he internalized on earth and just impacting those women in general in a way Jack didn't know how to deal with) and because of the way they got extra complicated due to stuff like pregnancies.
I think Jack can convince himself not to feel guilty CONSTANTLY if he's fucking someone he can force himself to see only as a fellow soldier. And I think he was able to tell himself Gwen was not a fellow soldier. And I think he tried to tell himself that about Ianto, but then Lisa happened _and_ Ianto was good in the field and then that happened.